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The relationship between crop richness and predator-prey interactions as they relate to pest-natural enemy systems is a very important topic in ecology and greatly affects biological control services.

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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Novozymes, the world’s largest industrial biotechnology company with U.S. headquarters in North Carolina, is branching out into “pest control agritechnology.” The Danish ...

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The 2025 Mississippi State University Row Crop Short Course will feature speakers covering topics from rice delphacid to ...

New findings could improve management practices for current biotech crops and promote development of new varieties that are more effective and more durable. Despite extensive planting of transgenic ...

A 2010 pilot effort to use the sterile insect technique (SIT) to control an endemic Mediterranean fruit fly pest population in the mandarin-growing region of the Neretva Valley in southern Croatia ...

A truck carrying firewood is suspected of transporting spotted lanternflies into Michigan's Jackson County in early 2025. By ...